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Benjamin Britten: Source Stories of Twelve Operas

by: Various

Publication date: 2014-06-04

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics: librivox, audiobooks, opera, prodigal son, midsummer night's dream, turn of the screw, benjamin britten, britten, source stories, little sweep, noye's fludde, burning fiery furnace, golden vanity, peter grimes, albert herring, owen wingrave, rape of lucretia, death in venice

Language: English

Item Size: 2.5G

LibriVox recording of Benjamin Britten: Source Stories of Twelve Operas by Various.

Read in English by David Wales.

Britten's operas are firmly established in the international repertoire: according to Operabase, they are performed worldwide more than those of any other composer born in the 20th century, and only Puccini and Richard Strauss come ahead of him if the list is extended to all operas composed after 1900. Britten went to various sources for his stories from the Bible to Japanese noh plays. This is a collection of twelve of the source stories. All but one are the original texts; the one exception is A Midsummer Night’s Dream which the reader took from Charles Lamb’s telling of the story. Some operas are omitted because no public domain texts could be found for their sources. Summary by Wikipedia and David Wales.

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Addeddate: 2014-06-04 22:35:11

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Run time: 13:14:19

Year: 2014

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